From The Babylon Bee.
DAVENPORT, IA— In an announcement that rocked the Christmas pageant world, seven-year-old Emma Stenson told reporters Wednesday she refuses to participate in the church nativity play after being cast as a sheep for the fourth year in a row.
The blond, curly-haired Stenson, whose parents describe as normally very compliant, said she was tired of being typecast.
“You mean to tell me Skylar gets to be Mary, and I’m the quiet, dumb animal again? Please! I could be ten times the Mary she is, and everyone knows it,” the agitated second grader reportedly said, adding that she has already paid her dues in the pasture.
“I wonder if Skylar playing Mary has anything to do with her dad being an elder,” she went on. “Probably just coincidence, right? Give me a break.”
Stenson added, “I’m so much more than livestock, and if they can’t see that—it’s their loss.”
bluebird of bitterness 
I so get it!
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Good for her.
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lol 😀
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I so wish that were true!
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Good for her! She stands up for herself and is eloquent doing it
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A similar thing happened to me. When I was six years old, I was chosen to be part of a live nativity scene in front of my dad’s workplace. I wanted to be Mother Mary. But NO, a pretty girl with long auburn hair was cast as Mary. Me, with my short, thin, curly blonde hair, was typecast as an Angel. It was late at night, in the dead of winter, and COLD. All I was given to wear was a thin white sheet and a halo made out of aluminum foil that had been pinned to the top of my head. I stood and shivered in my thin sheet behind the manger, careful not to shiver too much and lose my halo. Meanwhile, Mary, with her beautiful long hair, was wrapped up in several warm blankets, seated comfortably in a chair, cradling a baby doll in her arms.
I stood there and shivered for hours, while a long line of cars drove slowly by, honking and waving and yelling. I was a jealous, miserable, Mad Angel on that Holy Night.
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Frankly, no wonder! The adults didn’t have too many clues, did they? Why did no one realize you weren’t dressed for the weather? Bah, humbug!
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I second that.
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Oh, Linda! You’re a tough Angel! This story made me smile and I just adore it!
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Aww, thank you!
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You’re welcome ☺️! ❤️
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Awe, I feel it.
One year at the church we used to go to, the pastor’s daughter got to be Mary and I was stuck being an angel or in the choir or something. I was so mad😂
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Awwww. . . {{{{HUGS}}}}
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I don’t know where the Boys & Girls at the Babbelon Bee get their inspiration, sometimes, but their writing is pretty darn good!
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She really doesn’t know how baaaaaaadly she’s needed, though!
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I had to be an angel in the pageant every year too. Kiddie-choir robes and a headband of tinsel. Every year. Look cute, sing the songs, and never ever get to be a star of the show. I spared my daughters this nonsense, not only have they never been in a christmas pageant, they’ve never even been dragged to watch one.
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I gave mine the option, and most of them chose not to participate. My youngest, however, could never resist an opportunity to wear a costume and be on stage. One year she was supposed to be an angel but ended up being promoted to Mary for some reason. My eldest daughter said it was a smart move on the part of the casting director, because her little sister would be perfectly believable as a virgin, but never as an angel.
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LIKE!
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😀 😀 😀
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Lacking humility, I’d say.
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But bursting with self confidence.
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Too funny!
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Ah-ha-ha! Right on, little sister! 👍😉
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You go, Emma! You raise some excellent points. We’ll see you on the Supreme Court one day! 👩🏼⚖️
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That girl is going places. 🙂
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LOL! I once had some issues when I was younger because I really dislike sheep. Goats however, are just wonderful. So I was quite convinced God got this sheep thing all wrong, and if He got this wrong, what else might he be wrong about?
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I’m enjoying the comments on this post so much! I wish I could use the “like” function but something changed a while back and it tells me I’m already signed in somewhere else so I can’t “like” without signing out. I’ve tried everything I can think of. I might just have to resort to writing “like” as a reply. If you see it, you’ll know what’s going on 😀
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That’s weird. I’ve had trouble with the “like” function many times — it works only sporadically — but so far I haven’t had it tell me to sign out. I usually have the opposite problem — WP signs me out of my account for no apparent resign, and I have to sign back in again.
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I checked and you’re right, it’s asking me to sign in. But when I tried just now, and entered my password, I borked the whole thing, lol. Now all I get is a brief flash of an empty box, which then disappears, and my “like” still doesn’t show up! Sheesh. I’ll just write “like” using the reply function instead 🙂
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WP can be very glitchy sometimes.
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